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Definition of Ineptitude
1. Noun. Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
Generic synonyms: Unskillfulness
Specialized synonyms: Rustiness
Derivative terms: Awkward, Awkward, Clumsy, Inept, Maladroit, Slow
2. Noun. Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful. "The drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Fecklessness, Groundlessness, Idleness, Paltriness, Sorriness, Valuelessness, Shoddiness, Trashiness, Damn, Darn, Hoot, Red Cent, Shit, Shucks, Tinker's Dam, Tinker's Damn, Emptiness, Vanity
Antonyms: Worth
Derivative terms: Worthless
Definition of Ineptitude
1. n. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.
Definition of Ineptitude
1. Noun. The quality of being inept. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ineptitude
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineptitude
Literary usage of Ineptitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Junior High School by Leonard Vincent Koos (1920)
"A notable instance of its ineptitude would be the acceptance of the typical junior
high school as the standard of reorganization. Described in terms of the ..."
2. The Soul of Ireland by William J. Lockington (1920)
"These joyous-hearted women have sweetened and made endurable by their presence
that former monument of ineptitude, the poorhouse. The sound of their voices ..."
3. America and the Far Eastern Question: An Examination of Modern Phases of the by Thomas Franklin Millard (1909)
"... TO CHINA — OPPOSING INTRIGUES — PART PLAYED BY THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO CHINA —
DIPLOMATIC Ineptitude— THE FLEET AT AMOY — EFFECTS OF THIS INCIDENT. ..."
4. My American Diary by Clare Sheridan (1922)
"... the indifferences of the bourgeois, the national spirit of Mexico, the planet
we live in and the ineptitude of humans to adapt themselves to it. ..."
5. Sir Thomas Maitland, the Mastery of the Mediteranean: The Mastery of the by Walter Frewen Lord (1897)
"... Ineptitude —MAITLAND RESCUES MADRAS AND LECTURES THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON the
south side of Cavendish Square there stands, looking towards Oxford Street, ..."
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